iPhone Skins for RockASkin.com

The guys at RockASkin.com asked me to contribute to their new side, where you can buy skins for your iPhone or Blackberry. Supposedly a real trend over in the states.
And here is how they turned out.

Shit Tm Horror Series

By coincidence I stumbled upon the master protagonist of Norwegian Skateboard brand- Shit, Frode Goa and we got to talking. -And before I knew it, I was working on a Horror deck series for the rising company. The plan was to get the boards out before Halloween, but production was unfortunately delayed. The boards will be available in neon green, neon pink and silver.
You can eventually order the boards HERE.

Oslo Sci-Fi Festival Exhibit 2009

My friend Martin Holm have been doing the visual profile for OSFF a couple of years now, and he asked me if I wanted to have an exhibit there this year. And so I did.
After a hectic race to get things ready, the exhibit were a hit.
3 Big canvases (A1) and 6 smaller (30x30cm). I took hold of a simple but never ending concept; the discussion theme of witch monster will win? I tried out some new styles and had fun making the exhibit. All in all a good run.

Alternates 1


Alternates 2

T-shirts

Third Brigade New GigPoster

Third Brigade pimped out their outfit with a spanking new Gigposter. Check it out below.

Detail

Tine IsKaffe campaign

Dist and me made the new campaign for Tine IsKaffe. The focus was on the fact that the new coffee is from Brazil. So we took the pattern from the packaging, used it as pixels and made a Brazillian Flag the key of the artwork in the campaign. The original packaging was made by Bjørn Rybakken at Tangram. Stripe made the movies.
Boards shown below.

Slipstream Boards of 2010

Slipstream Longboards came and asked me to do some sketches for next seasons boards, and I was naturally on "board" with that. Here are the four boards they picked to be used for the next season.

The Cumshots - A Life Less Necessary

The new Cumshots Album, A Life Less Necessary hit the shelves yesterday. The Cover is made by me and L-P Lorentzen -witch, again, stood for a lot of crazy cool photos. Check it.

T.I.P. Norsk Industri

Farm House contacted me a while back and wanted me to come and work with them in beautiful Stryn. It turned out that I got the simple task to develop a visual profile, illustrations and co-develop a concept. The client was T.I.P, or Norsk Industri.
T.I.P stands for technological industry and production, an educational branch with many sub genres. So, in cooperation with Farm House, I developed one main logo, and seven sub-logos, a character for each branch and all the profile elements. Also a recruiting-stunt involving the main T.I.P character.

Here are the core elements.

The main T.I.P character

Stunt Teaserposter
Main Poster

The profile also includes a website, brochures, a stunt, roll ups, t-shirts, business cards and various other elements.

Dum Dum Boys SingelCover

Dum Dum Boys contacted me and wanted me to make their singelcover for "Snø på mars" (snow on mars). Given a thight deadline and little information, I just took something and went with it. And I'm impressed with the band and what they went with in the end.

Some Choises are More Important than Others.

Well I've had a super time at DIST for a while now, and I thought I would show a little of what has happened. This is an ad for Litago "semesterets smak", where people can choose flavours and mix them together and suggest them to Litago, and maybe it'll end up as a flavoured milk. This ad was made like this because of the political theme of the magazine it were printed in.

Kite Coverteaser

Soon, Kite will release their new album. A smooth piece of white digipack printed with gold.
Check it out on release Oct 12th.

"Læring i Samspill" Book cover

Stat Ped asked me to help them out with a book cover design for a collection of articles called "Learning in interaction". This is how the front turned out.

Next Friday KF-shirt

The boys at Dist Creative had the opportunity to make a new Kreativt Forum T-shirt, and I had the pleasure to make the design for it. Martine Kveim made it possible for users of the shirt to cut out pieces of it, and exchange it for beers at Kreativt Forum's parties. Eirik Sørensen and Finn Kristian Eidem Knudsen, brilliant art directors as they are, came up with fun captions to each beer bong. Fun project.

"Oooh! I'm So Metal" T-shirt

New product added to my T-shirt shop. The fashionable "Ooh, I'm so metal" shirt will be a blended statement for everyone to enjoy. Fully customizable for both girls and boys.

"Sweets" Customized Shoes

My first customized shoes for this season. For a super sweet girl, some super sweet shoes. Candy feet! yey. hehe. I forgot how much fun this was. Looking forward to doing some more of this type of work this summer.

Robert Post T-shirt & flyer

Robert Post called me up, and asked me if I could help him out with some merch and a nifty post-card sized flyer for his upcoming gig with Jazon Mraz. And this is how I visualised Robert's world.

KOTH giveaway shirt

King of the Hill is going to talk about starting a business to some students at OHG. And he's going to give away some shirts for some of the students. A bit of a rush-project, this. But it turned out pretty ok.

New El Cuero T-shirt.

Soon, you'll be able to get one of these at your El Cuero gig.

KOTH (king of the hill) Profile elements 1

KOTH, or King of the Hill just released a new profile and website. (web crafted together by Martin Holm, thanks.) We thought to have it simple, but trying to keep it real like new old school. Whatever that means.
It's been a fun project, and it's still not 100% finished. But some elements are. It's a continuing process, and more elements for the store is bound to pop up.

First batch of shirts for team riders a.o.

Flyer



Exhibition flyer.

Also, the store is functioning as an showroom. The paintings from last summer, will be exhibited there throughout the summer. Step by and take a look, have a chat.

Back to the Future, with the Royal Family.

The sweet guys at DIST asked me to help them with a job they had going on. The client turned out to be the The Crown Prince and Crown Princess’ Humanitarian Fund. I was pretty stoked about that. The project was a illustration brief. An ad, and some elements for a website for the competition they were having. See the website here. You'll see the ad and some details below.

Closer up


Details:

Read more about the competition at the royal website, VG, Dagbladet or Aftenposten.

A nice photo of the The Crown Prince and Crown Princess taken from Dagbladet.no
(Photo: Heiko Junge / SCANPIX)

'It's The Inside That Counts' T-shirt

NEW T-SHIRT IN MY SHOP!
A paradoxical shirt with a message we were all imprinted with while growing up.


Order now! Girls HERE. (Fully customizable). Boys HERE. Easy!

Blodbanken T-shirts

The good chaps at Anorak asked me to help them with the graphics for Blodbanken Oslo's t-shirts. The kind you get after donating blood. They have a whole, every-day-hero going on, and so the prints would represent that in some way. One color for girls and one for boys.

By:Larm 09 Exhibition

As mentioned before, I was lucky enough to be a part of by:larm's Nisjelandet 09.
The canvases I exhibited were big illustrations inspired by a gigposter mentality. They spanned over 2 x 1,5 meters, printed on nylon canvases.
I also made t-shirts with the same prints in a very limited edition. Each print had 3 t-shirts, in two gender-models, only one in each size.
The exhibit went well, and truly was an amazing experience. Thanks Nisjelandet!

The Last Heat Limited ed. Demo cover

The first batch of The Last Heat covers are finished. Some technical problems were accoutered, but everything turned out pretty good. 55 special limited edition covers in beautiful cardboard with logo, stamps, stickers and seals. Pics of the process HERE.

The Last Heat Logo

I'm currently working with The Last Heat, to make some real nice D.I.Y covers. Cutting, folding, stamping, sealing and having a blast. More about this later.

Kite T-shirt

Kite was in need of some new merch, and so we made this shirt, based on the previous poster and backdrop-design.

Discovery Channel, Hemsedal Illustration

TBWA contacted me and asked if I could help them with an illustration for Discovery Channel that was going to hang at Hemsedal Ski resort. The project was fun and proved to be quite large. The finished board was over 5 meters long and over 2 meters high, with around 30-40 illustrations. The point was to highlight the off-slope rides, and illustrate the name of each place.
Below you can see some of the illustrations up close.
I'll add photos as soon as possible.

Details:

By:Larm 2009 -Nisjelandet press release.

Wow. It's getting more and more exciting to be a part of this year's Nisjelandet. It's basically the "arty" part of the Norwegian music festival By:Larm. And for the occasion, I'll exhibit a small collection of large poster-art inspired illustrations.
The Press release is out now, where you can read all about the whole thing. (Only in Norwegian).
I'm on page 12. Download the rapport HERE.

New Cover Teaser...

It's not long to go before this hits the printers, but I'm very exited about it, so I have to show a "teaser". The band remains un-named, but it's going to be one hell of a record.

Ping & Major Parkinson Poster

The guys from Ping asked me to do a poster for their upcoming show alongside Major Parkinson. And with good time, now, we finished. There might come some small changes, you never know. But I hope not.
I had a lot of fun on this one. A lot of absurdities left un-scanned, and the typo in the middle was a laugh. fun stuff!

details

New T-shirt in my store

New item in my online-t-shirt store! The Worlds Greatest Vlad!
Fully customizable. Get one HERE!

Early -the Cumshots Sketches

Now It's not long before the new Cumshots record cover is finished, and as a teaser, I thought I'd might show some early sketches, since we were in the process of picking style.
This however, is not the style that is going to be on the cover. But you might get some hints :)

Sketchbucket? Yes!

I've finally made a collection of some of my many sketches online. Just for fun. You can check it out via THIS link, or on the right here in the link-list.

Young Fogertys Merch

The band Young Fogertys, consisting of members from bands like the Cumshots, El Cuero and Shit City, plays cover versions of Creedence Clearwater Revival songs. Since I have had contact with the prior bands, they asked me to do a shirt for them. Based on the traditional baseball raglan shirt and retro with a twist mentality, this is what we ended up with.

Knut Reiersrud Band Cover Complete

Now, the Knut Reiersrud Band record, "voodoo without killing chicken", have been out a little while, -and gotten some great reviews by the way. So I thought it was about time to show the whole thing. Made by Awknard and me. Look out for the vinyl, also.

ONE wild NIGHT ONLY

C-t Prevail keeps on playing, and wanting posters for their shows. And I love posters so much, I can't not do anything. C-t and Max midsun are whipping it out at their hometown. Ålesund.
One gross playful wild night.

Details:

Knut Reiersrud Band Poster

For promoting the band in the various stores, here is the poster. Based on the same booklet-poster that contains the lyrics in the actual cover.

Pretty Mean FacTour Poster

The boys, or should I say, -men in C-t Prevail asked me to to a tour poster for them and their supporting bands, Max Midsun and the Promdates. And this is how it turned out:

El Cuero - A Glimmer of Hope Digipack

The El Cuero Album, A Glimmer of Hope just came from the printers, and will hit the shops the 6Th of Oct. A beautiful digipack with a sleeve, all a nice, solid package. And the album is great!
Be sure to check it out! Thanks again to L-P for the photos.

Pipedream Shirts

Pipedream have just released their first single, and have a show at Rockefeller soon. In that regard, they asked me if I could make some new shirts for them that wasn't based on their demo-cover art.
And we ended up somewhere along side this:

Knerten & Lillebror Props

I was asked to do a series of props and logos being used in the new Knerten og Lillebror movie. All taking place in the 60's.
Based on the Knerten & Lillebror books by Anne-Cath. Vestly.
Fun to be involved in such a project.
Showing underneath, a fictional book cover used in the film. The Knight & The Dragon.

Knut Reiersrud Band Cover

I was asked by the AWKNARD crew and help make the new cover for Knut Reiersrud Band's record; Voodoo Without Killing Chicken.
Showing the front, as a teaser.

The Paintings of Summer 2008

After I was asked by RockArt to have a exhibition there, I figured out I'd like to paint again. And so after some time, I had 11 paintings ready for the exhibit. It was fun to paint again, and I'm sure I'll be doing it a lot more in the future.

"René" Acrylic on canvas 185x100 cm

"Good is Relative" Acrylic on canvas 30x45 cm

"Tin Tim" Acrylic on canvas 10x35 cm (x3)

"Leaving" Acrylic on canvas 50x50 cm

"Manners" Acrylic on canvas 50x50 cm

"Sweet" Acrylic on canvas 50x50 cm

"Depths" Acrylic on canvas 50x50 cm

"Autumn" Acrylic on canvas 25x45 cm



"Life" Acrylic on canvas 25x25 cm



"Afterall" Acrylic on canvas 25x25 cm

"Falling Guy" Acrylic on canvas 25x25 cm

Sidewalk Surfing Pitch

Here is a board for the upcoming Sidewalk Surfing. I made the graphics and logo, and now it's just to sit down and wait and see if the various sporting goods stores will take the chance for next season.

El Cuero - A Glimmer of Hope

El Cuero's new album; A Glimmer of hope will come out October 6Th. And here is a sneak preview of the front of the cover. It'll be a digipack with slipcase featuring artwork created by yours truly together with L-P Lorentzen. I can't wait. And in the shadows of that release, the new and the debut album will come out on vinyl!

More the Cumshot merch

After the first round of merch, the band wanted some more.
Here it is. A t-shirt and a hoodie.

New El Cuero Poster

El Cuero is getting ready for their new release. And for that we have a new poster.
Photos by L-P Lorentz.

KITE backdrop

Kite wanted me to do a backdrop in the same style as the previous poster, and this is how that turned out...

Cards of the Trade

I finally got my own business cards. With space to write custom titles and everything! hehe.
Now I'm right about finished with all my paintings for this years Rockart ART exhibition.

Smartfish Illustration

2008 Scandinavia asked me for help on a project they had going on for Smartfish. -The new Omega 3 fruit drink, with Terje Håkonsen as one of the highest speaking profiles.
The project was to make a double page illustration for a special edition of the Skier Magazine. Witch is 70 x 49 cm! And we ended up with a weird illustration based on the mix between fish and fruit... Fun stuff. Thanks Martin.

Details

Check out Omega 3 Truths for more info.